The Daily Worker

"DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION" N. Y. Communist Mass Rallies Workers

Over 2,000 workers jammed the Central Opera House in a spirited demonstration against Stimson's war threat on the Soviet Union.

"Defense of the Soviet Union" was the central slogan which animated the meeting called by District 2 of the Communist Party.

This is the first of a series of six meetings which is aimed to mobilize the American workers against U. S. imperialism's threatened attack on the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.

I. Amter, District Organizer, opened the meeting calling on the workers to mobilize against the war danger. "Defend the Soviet Union," was his appeal which was enthusiastically greeted by the audience.

James Mo, secretary of the Chinese Workers' Alliance, spoke on

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the revolutionary movement in China that is mobilizing against the Stimson threat and against Chiang Kai Shek's puppet Nanking rule.

A tremendous ovation greeted the appearance of Clarence Miller, one of the Gastonia class-war prisoners, who spoke at the meeting.

Other speakers were M. J. Olgin, editor of The Morning Freiheit; Robert Minor, editor of The Daily Worker; J. Doonping of the Chinese Workers' Alliance.

There will be a series of six other meetings to mobilize against Wall Street's war preparations against the Soviet Union. These meetings will be held on Friday night, December 13, at the following places: Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St., Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. near 42nd St.; Bronx, Rose Garden, 1347 Boston Rd.; Williamsburg, Miller's Grand Assembly Hall; Astoria, L. I., Bohemian Hall, and another meeting will be held in Brownsville.